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Evy of California Sources Worldwide
Evy has followed a trajectory familiar to many in the apparel industry: It began by manufacturing all its products in its own factory, ultimately employing about 2,000 sewers in factories in and around Los Angeles. By the start of this century, however, the company's "Produced in the USA" strategy had become uncompetitive. "We were no longer a viable supplier to the Wal-Marts and Kmarts of the world," says Kurt Krieser, Evy's CEO.
Seeking to lower costs, Evy shipped its equipment to Mexico and opened a factory there, soon adding production in Central America. Though Evy still maintains a presence in that region, primarily to manufacture t-shirts under NAFTA and CAFTA rules of origin, it found that, to remain competitive, it had to expand to other locations. Since the mid-2000s, it has contracted with Asian suppliers for about 80 percent of its production. At first, most of this production was centered in eastern China, but during the past two years, much of it migrated to Indonesia and Southeast Asia. Currently, China accounts for about 40 percent of Evy's Asian sourcing, and Indonesia accounts for 30 percent.
Selecting vendors
Pricing, though essential in allowing Evy to remain competitive, is only one of many factors that govern the choice of suppliers (and that determine where those suppliers locate their production, given that many suppliers themselves have multinational operations). Factories must make enough profit to stay in business, Krieser says, and "we have to work together to create balance" between pricing and other considerations.
First, as a matter of policy, Evy prefers to spread its business among multiple contractors. "We don't want all our eggs in one basket," Krieser says. "We need to have options and keep our suppliers competitive."
The choice of supplier also depends on the timing of the order. About a third of Evy's business consists of replenishment, which requires a five- to six-week turn, compared with the three- to four-month turn required for ordinary seasonal orders. Factories can meet this fast turnaround requirement only if they have ready access to fabrics, among other things. If delivering fabric to the factory takes a month, the retailer won't be able to keep up with the demand for hot items. Thus, restocking orders are often placed with factories different from those that fulfilled the original orders. For example, Mexico has a greater competitive advantage for fast-turn orders than for orders with longer lead times.
In addition to lead times, specialized experience also counts for a great deal. Certain factories — and even certain countries — specialize in different kinds of apparel, and Evy prefers dealing with specialists. "Pant factories are designed to make pants, and that's where they're good," Krieser explains. "A sleepwear factory should only do sleepwear. We need a trusted vendor who's good at flame retardancy. Others aren't necessarily experienced in that." Specialization isn't only important in production; Evy relies on vendors' expertise during the product development phase as well. Vendors often travel to California to meet with the design team and collaborate on developing new products.
Raising the bar
By far the most important sourcing criterion, however, is competence. Over the past decade, Evy has increasingly shifted its production to larger, more professionally managed factories — some of these factories have as many as 30,000 employees. There are two reasons for this.
One reason is that both Evy and its major customers place a strong emphasis on social responsibility. To stay "ahead of the curve" on issues of employee rights, environmental impact and product safety, Evy requires factories to certify their compliance with various global standards, and it stations quality-control staff in Asia to monitor the factories' adherence to these standards. As a practical matter, becoming certified by independent testing organizations and maintaining consistent performance levels requires significant overhead and infrastructure. "For a small factory to supervise and authenticate [restrooms, lighting quality, overtime hours, and so forth] would be too expensive," Krieser says.
The second reason is that over time, Evy's orders have become larger and more complex and its requirements more exacting. And when the production of a coordinate group is split up among different countries based on their specialized experience and import-duty rates, "all those garments have to come back to the warehouse in California, and their colors have to match," Krieser says. "Hello Kitty can't have a yellow face on the hoodie and a white one on the pants." Light pink can't be interpreted in two different ways by two different factories. A fabric's yarn size, stitch count and stretchability must be the same regardless of its country of origin.
At Evy's scale, with production volumes ranging from 10,000 to 100,000 units per style, any mistake is a big mistake, and big mistakes are virtually unthinkable for the supplier, for Evy or for the retail customer. "We can't say to our retailers that their back-to-school group will be delayed by a month and a half," Krieser says. "They'd have empty racks."
He adds, "Once a supplier gets it right, it's very advantageous for us to give them more work. … We've grown by 20 percent to 30 percent a year over the last few years, and we're relying on our suppliers to grow along with us. That's not to say we're not looking at other possibilities, but if you want to replace [a supplier that is making] four and a half million hoodies, it's not like you're going to find some guy you never heard of and he's going to be able to hit the prices and standards.
"So there's a long-term investment between us and our suppliers — not normally a financial investment, but a significant commitment in long-term orders on our part and consistent production on their part."
The role of IT
Managing all this complexity would be impossible without powerful IT systems. To keep its processes on track from product development through delivery, and to make sure all its vendors have access to current information, Evy has relied since 2006 on the integrated software suite from New Generation Computing (NGC), which includes product lifecycle management, supply chain management and global sourcing, and enterprise resource planning.
Krieser says one advantage of the NGC product suite is that it adds new capabilities faster than Evy can implement them. As a result, Evy expands its use of the system each year and still has room to become more efficient.
In 2013, Evy will begin requiring some factories to enter their information directly into the NGC database, along with photos of their work, so it can reduce its reliance on emails and on the shipping of samples. This will help it create exception reports that identify what hasn't been done, and also reject incorrect work without incurring the delay or expense of shipping physical samples.
A second, even more ambitious project — one that may also take several years to complete — is to reduce the turn time for a third of Asian production to 100 days. This would greatly benefit Evy's customers because the later they can commit to purchasing goods, the more accurate their forecasts will be and the lower their overall costs will be. Achieving this goal may require Evy to stockpile yarn, gray goods or even unornamented garments to enable it to respond more quickly to orders. It will also involve entering much more detailed data and specifications into the system during the design phase, so that production can start up two to four weeks sooner.
"If we can use product lifecycle management to shorten the specification cycle, then we will be able to tell our suppliers what we need from them much faster," says Krieser. "So we'll be specifying all the components at the design level rather than the production level."
Masha Zager is a New York-based Apparel contributing writer specializing in business and technology.


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Book Blitz Sign Up: Vavaun: The Shadow of the Revenaunt by Paul E. Horsman!
by Paul E. Horsman
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
Release Date: June 12th 2016
Red Rune Books
Summary from Goodreads:
After helping King Ghyll to his victory in Zihaen, the beastmasters Uwella and Damion turn their attention to their own country of Vavaun.
High time, too, for the rumors have been persistent. There is something wildly amiss in the Gray Order, the temple protecting Vavaun from the Dar'khamorth's machinations.
When Uwella DeGry, herself a wikke of the Grays and the heir to the throne of Vavaun, returns home with Damion DeAsharte, her mate and main competitor, they find their country in dire straits. Vile sorcerers and their beastmen roam the land, killing and ravaging at will and the Gray Order has almost been wiped out.
With only two very young fire warriors to help them, the ducal beastmasters vow to liberate their country, defeat the Dar'khamorth and bring peace between their competing Houses of Gry and Asharte.
Will even their mighty feline alter egos be strong enough to survive against the dark magic of the Revenaunt's minions?
Vavaun is a tale of struggle, friendship and bravery against an enemy who plans total annihilation.
It is a stand-alone 'Shadow of the Revenaunt'-adventure, running parallel to book 3, Ordelanden, and it starts after the final battle at the Owan Abai in Zihaen.
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Paul E. Horsman (1952) is a Dutch and International Fantasy Author. Born in the sleepy garden village of Bussum, The Netherlands, he now lives in Roosendaal, a town on the Dutch border with Belgium.
He has been a soldier, salesman, scoutmaster and from 1995 teacher of Dutch as a Second Language to refugees from all over the globe.
Since 2012, he is a full-time writer of epic light fantasy adventures for Y.A. and older. His works have been both trade published in The Netherlands, and self-published internationally.
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Beef Recipes
Tri-colored Steak Au Poivre Recipe
Try your hand at this delicious Tri-Colored Steak au Poivre recipe, which pairs nicely with a smooth, dark stout beer.
Veal Marsala Recipe
This delicious recipe for Veal Marsala spotlights—you guessed it—Italian Marsala wine. You may also substitute chicken for the veal.
Lamb Meatballs With Minted Cucumber-yogurt Sauce Recipe
This recipe for Lamb Meatballs with Minted Cucumber-Yogurt Sauce is delicious served with warm pita bread, or alone as an hors d'oeuvres
Summer Lobster Salad With Tarragon-lemonade Spritzer Recipe
This light summer lobster salad recipe is delicious when served alongside a tarragon-lemonade spritzer!
Summer Tomato Bruschetta With Goat Cheese And Basil Recipe
This light and delicious recipe for Summer Tomato Bruschetta with Goat Cheese and Basil is a great stepping stone or other appetizers. Experiment with different herbs, cheeses, and vinegars!
Grilled Summer Squash With Mint, Goat Cheese, And Crisp Prosciutto Recipe
This delicious summer squash recipe features mint, goat cheese, and crispy prosciutto. What better way to highlight summer's freshest veggies?
Thai Beef Salad Recipe
You won't be disappointed with this recipe for Thai Beef Salad--a light and refreshing dish that offers a different burst of flavor for each bite.
Beef Consommé Recipe
This recipe for beef consommé can be labor-intensive, but the results are worth it. Beef consommé is perfect as a light starter or as a base for sauces or other soups.
Beef Stew (cooked One Of Two Ways) Recipe
This delicious beef stew recipe can be prepared either the traditional way, or with a pressure cooker for a fraction of the time.
Dijon-garlic Crusted Filet Of Beef Recipe
This delicious recipe for Dijon-Garlic Crusted Filet of Beef shows is a perfect example of how herbs and wonderfully complement the richness of beef.


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Keiko Sato
Musical Studies
Keiko Sato received her Bachelor of Music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music in 1982, studying with Mieczyslaw Horszowski and Gary Graffman. She has both a Master of Music and a Master of Musical Arts degree from the Yale School of Music, where she studied with Seymour Lipkin and Claude Frank.
She has received various prizes in international and national piano competitions. Ms. Sato has performed as soloist with numerous orchestras and played recitals in Japan, where she was born, and throughout the United States.
From 1985 to 1987, she was instructor of piano at Yale. Ms. Sato joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in 1987.


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Thinking hardly or hardly thinking? Philosophy |
Major trains of thought |
The good, the bad, and the brain fart |
Come to think of it |
The word secular can be a noun (e.g. a member of a secular clergy, not bound by monastic laws) or an adjective — describing an act, a person, a government, or pretty much anything else that is not explicitly religious in its nature.[1]
Advocates of a secular society such as Humanists UK argue that secularism gives both the religious and the irreligious equal footing and an equal voice.[2] Eliminating favoritism towards a priest-caste impedes any single religion from unfairly dominating others. Mostly, however, secularism keeps the crazies (well, the religious crazies, at any rate) either out of power or unable to put anything overly crazy into force.
In a more technical sense, the term secular, deriving as it does from the Latin saecularis (of or pertaining to a century or age), has also been adopted in some fields to refer to long-term, non-periodic changes or trends, as in astronomy (ie, secular evolution of galaxies) or economics.
Secular law and governments[edit]
""With adherence to the principle of secularism, values based on reason and science replaced dogmatic values. [...] Persons of different beliefs, desiring to live together, were encouraged to do so by the State's egalitarian attitude towards them. [...] Secularism accelerated civilisation by preventing religion from replacing scientific thought in the State's activities. It creates a vast environment of civic responsibility and freedom.
—The Constitutional Court of Turkey upon outlawing the pro-Sharia "Welfare Party"[3] |
Secular laws are those laws made outside of the authority of any church or religion. In a theocratic or partially-theocratic county, you may still have a secular body of law, but they are generally secondary if they come into conflict with any religious laws. Most so-called western nations have not only a secular body of law, but also ruling documents codifying that all laws will be secular in nature, and the Government itself remains secular even if a particular leader or party has religious affiliations. The vast majority of western countries have laws against blasphemy (even in some cases labeling it "hate speech"), however, and America has so-called ceremonial deism in which the government occasionally endorses belief in God, and everyone pretends it's not religious.
The United States is a formally secular nation, having an official and legal separation of the church and state which is codified in its Constitution. Many of its leaders have been public about their religious backgrounds, and some state and local officials have tried to go far beyond simply being public and open. However, the Supreme Court has consistently upheld that separation.
The United Kingdom has an official connection between church and state (with the current Monarch as head of both), but in practice, the government and her laws are almost completely secular. France has taken the move to secularism to the extreme, banning instances of religious expression, denying some people the free right to proselytize, and legally banning members of cults (specifically targeted at Scientology) from serving as elected officials.
Turkey is one of the few Islamic countries to have a secular constitution and body of law. Oddly, it is the military who have taken responsibility for defending secularism against religious incursion, and there have been four military coups as a result of the military leadership believing the government has strayed too close to reinstating religious laws. They do not, however, fully recognize freedom of religion; blasphemy is illegal, and there are severe restrictions on the Orthodox Christian Church.
Secular science[edit]
Secular is the best way to describe science inasmuch as, as a principle, it is unaffected by existing dogmas or religious attitudes. Anti-science proponents would generally describe science as atheistic, believing that science seeks to deny god and seeing science as the enemy of religion. The phrase "secular literature" is often used by Answers in Genesis in an attempt to distinguish their (frankly, rather poor) journal from the rest of scientific peer review. In the minds of such people, "secular" and "atheism" are essentially synonymous, and this has led to the so-called "conflict thesis"; that religion and science are inherently opposed.
Although science, as a method, is certainly not antitheistic, most scientists would agree that the results that have been derived from the method remove the need for god as an explanation for physical phenomena. This does not, however, necessarily lead to a conclusion that there is no god; it only limits what such a being can be used to explain.
Those with their eye on the middle ground between science and religion would take a NOMA stance and argue they are wrong on both counts. NOMA advocates would therefore state that science has no such goal and it is beyond the realm of science to deny god, or prove god does not exist. Opponents of the NOMA concept would argue that no area should be free from scientific investigation, including the possible existence of God(s).
Secular life[edit]
As can be imagined, religious fundamentalists have no liking for the word or the concept of a secular society or life, given that God is removed from being at the center, and may even attempt to deny that such a concept is moral or even rational. However, the term has wide application and makes perfect sense. There are many aspects of life that even the fundamentalists probably accept as not falling under the aegis of their religious beliefs. Purely personal matters, such as where to live, what colour to paint the back porch, and whether or not Coke tastes better than Pepsi, are all secular matters. Although if some of the scenes in Jesus Camp are anything to go by, it could be argued that someone, somewhere will have turned such trivial matters into a theological debate. Churches have been issuing prayers for increasingly trivial (but more relevant to modern life) situations recently, so it is quite likely that religion for some people is all pervasive into every area of their life.
Some environments treat the word "secular" as a very powerful sneering swear-word - almost as pejorative as "atheist".
In a nutshell[edit]
"Secularism" (QualiaSoup)[edit]
See also[edit]
- ↑ secular
- ↑ Secularism
- ↑ Quoted in: ECtHR 13 February 2003, applications 41340/98, 41342/98, 41343/98 and 41344/98, (Refah Partisi (The Welfare Party) v. Turkey) par. 40.


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From Linux-VServer
Guests can be started using one of the following init styles:
- plain
- Launches a unique init process for the guest that appears to run as PID 1.
- Guest's init process executes the rc scripts.
- Therefore, you cannot watch the startup process.
- However, any shutdown or restart command should work
- sysv (default)
- Executes the runlevel scripts directly.
- You can watch the startup process.
- Slightly lighter weight since no additional init process is needed.
- The vserver sees a fake init with PID 1 that has the same properties as the real init on the host.
- You must use "reboot -f" or "halt -f" to restart or shut down from within the guest.
- Default start runlevel is 3, and stop is 6
- gentoo
- Like sysv but works on Gentoo-based guests.
- Was deprecated but has been reinstated around util-vserver 0.30.212.
- minit
- Like plain init but smaller.
- minit must be installed on the guest.
- http://www.fefe.de/minit/
The init style should go in a file containing a single word: sysv, plain, etc.
If the file doesn't exist, sysv will be used. If the word isn't recognized, the guest will not be started and an error will be printed.
Using runit
runit is an init replacement that provides service monitoring. There currently are at least three ways to use it with vserver:
- Set initstyle to plain; this allows you to launch your own runit inside the vserver.
- This is the most straightforward way. Guests can shut themselves down and restart as usual. Disadvantage: once extra runit-init process per guest.
- Use a persistent context for the guest, and just run the services inside it, not runit itself. This is discussed in Running runit-supervised services inside a vserver.
- Set initstyle to sysv, but cmd.start to "/etc/runit/2" and cmd.stop to "/etc/runit/3".
- Advantage: you can run a vserver supervised by runit running on the host.
For this to work, you must customize /etc/runit/2 in the vserver as follows:
#!/bin/sh trap ":" HUP INT QUIT ILL TRAP ABRT BUS FPE USR1 SEGV USR2 PIPE ALRM TERM CHLD CONT STOP TSTP TTIN TTOU URG XCPU XFSZ VTALRM PROF WINCH IO PWR SYS PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin runsvchdir default >/dev/null env - PATH=$PATH \ runsvdir -P /var/service 'log: ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................' exec /etc/runit/3
Now, you can set up a runit service on the host with a run script like this one:
#!/bin/sh exec 2>&1 exec vserver name-of-vserver start
This way:
- vserver start doesn't exit until runsvdir terminates.
- If runsvdir terminates, all services running inside the vserver are stopped.
- vserver stop works as expected.
- Update: with util-vserver 0.30.212 on amd64, it doesn't. The signal never reaches runsvdir.
- You can control the vserver using sv like any other service, provided all processes running inside it are managed by runit.
- If there are processes left inside after all the services exited, runit running on the host won't be able to restart the vserver until those stray processes are killed somehow.
- You may want to add something to this effect to the finish script of the vserver service, but it may not be a good idea. Be sure you know what you are doing, as always.
Still, this may not be the best way to integrate runit with vserver. Running runit-supervised services inside a vserver may be better if you only run a specific service in a guest and it seems wasteful to keep extra processes around. Using the plain initstyle and starting runit-init in each guest is best if you want to make your guests behave like a physical system. It's also the most hassle-free approach.
--Guy- 02:30, 2 February 2007 (CET)


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Cat is an amazing textile artist who loves to sew adorable plush owl toys with her own two hands. Her work has been exhibited in Australia and worldwide and is now available for purchase on Etsy.
Friday, December 17, 2010
Cat Rabbit: Fluffy And Feathered
Cat is an amazing textile artist who loves to sew adorable plush owl toys with her own two hands. Her work has been exhibited in Australia and worldwide and is now available for purchase on Etsy.
Hancock Fabrics
Friday Freebie: Christmas Gift Tags + Desktop Backgrounds
A team of very talented people behind Wee Birdy put together these free gift tags and labels for Christmas.
Also, there are wallpapers and twitter backgrounds in three lovely colors for download on their blog.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Iittala Taika Giveaway To Thank You!
{Note: This week's new posts will appear below this one.}
I picked these stunning Iittala mugs for the giveaway as I think these are perfect to enjoy hot cocoa with your better half during these chilly nights! I hope you like them as much as I do and enjoy them forever.
To enter, you must be a follower of My Owl Barn (click here to follow My Owl Barn)
2. Like My Owl Barn on Facebook, and
Make sure you leave a comment here letting me know that you are a follower and have liked and shared.
Winner will be announced sometime on December 16th!
Update: Our winner is Fawn!
Katherine Harvey
Origami Club
Origami Club is a wonderful website with tonnes of Origami tutorials categorized from easy to advanced level. Every tutorial has a comprehensive diagram and an animation to guide through every fold. I found this fun owl origami tutorial which I think can be used as a placecard, decorating a gift or making an ornament. You can print out the instructions and also some patterned paper to make you own fun origami.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
The Midnight Garden Of Great Owl
A little story behind the title - The Midnight Garden of Great Owl "At the midnight time, Great Owl wakes up and transforms his feathery chest into his mysterious garden. He allows any innocent creatures to live in his garden. He always watches over his own garden and good friends from evils and demons. When the sunrise starts, Great Owl goes back to his feathery look and falls asleep for regaining his strength." I think it's an appropriate and a beautiful interpretation of this genius piece. She welcomes commissions and can be contacted through her website.
United Thread
The Little Otsu Living Things Series
The Little Otsu Living Things Series is collection of mini art books in which indie artists explore one idea based around the theme of living things. The first book of the series is by Lizzy Stewart called "A Guide to Eastern European Wildlife" that consists of 16 pages of amazing and beautiful drawings including birds in flight and an owl on a perch. It's available to purchase here.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Joyeux Noël
Winter Woodland Cake and Gingerbread Bird House
Bridget Beth
Bridget Beth's beautiful 8x10 prints of her original watercolor paintings. Check out her other amazing prints in her shop.
I would like to share this quote from the artist from her profile-"I love to create. Seeing the spirit explode in color and light via paint, the garden, flavors or singing my heart out is a joy to my soul."
Monday, December 13, 2010
KG + AB Terrarium
Printable Holiday Gift Tags By Camilla Engman
I have always adored cute little characters of Camilla Engman, so I was excited to find these gift tags that she generously made available for free download on her blog.


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The first truly synthetic plastic was invented by Leo Baekeland – a Belgium chemist living in New York. Baekeland was already very rich as he had invented the first commercially successful photographic paper and sold it to George Eastman in 1898 for $1 million. With such money, Baekeland could engage himself in whatever research he decided to do.
In 1905, he found that when he combined formaldehyde and phenol, he produced a material that bound all types of powders together. He called this material Bakelite – after himself – and it was the first thermosetting plastic in the world. This was a material that once it set hard would not soften under heat. It had so many uses and so many potential uses, that it was called "the material of a thousand uses".
Bakelite was water and solvent resistant; could be used as an electrical insulator; was rock hard but could be cut by a knife and was used in 78 rpm records and telephones.
New plastics were invented such as neoprene in 1932, polythene in 1933 and Perspex in 1934. One of the most famous wholly synthetic fibres was invented in 1938 at the cost of $10 million – nylon. In the first year of its creation, nylon went into toothbrush bristles and nylon stockings. 64 million pairs of stockings were made in 1938 alone. Nylon was also used by the military in World War Two for gearing wheels in vehicles and parachute cords.
Plastic as a whole was very important in World War Two. 'Plane cockpits were made of Perspex, polythene was used in insulate radar and plastic was used to make synthetic rubber for tyres.
More modern plastics include Teflon (used in non-stick pans), lycra (used initially in sports wear), Dacron (crease and rot-resistant material used in sailing and tents). All these have a background in the work done by Baekeland and his Bakelite.


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Rod Stewart And Stevie Nicks To Go On The Road This Summer
Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks have made quite a nice living for themselves repeating their past glories. So it makes perfect sense to learn that, this summer, the two of them will be reprising their successful arena tour of last year.
"I couldn't be happier to be back on the boards with Stevie this summer," Rod Stewart said in a statement. "We had fantastic fun on the road together last spring and I'm thrilled at the chance to bring it to new cities and fans this summer."
The first concert on their Raspy Blondes Have More Fun Heart & Soul Tour will be at Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena on July 20. As of now only six shows have been announced, with the tour set to close on August 4 at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Fla., but given the firepower of these two acts, you can bet that more dates will follow soon.
The tour opener won't be Stewart's only appearance in Cleveland this year. He'll be there in April for the long-awaited induction of his first group, the Faces, into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. He was inducted as a solo act in 1994. And, of course, Nicks was inducted in 1998 for her work in Fleetwood Mac.
Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks Tour Dates
7/20 — Cleveland, Ohio
7/21 — Cincinnati, Ohio
7/24 — Nashville, Tenn.
7/28 — Pittsburgh, Pa.
7/30 -- Milwaukee, Wis.
8/3 — Amway Center Orlando, Fla.
8/4 — BankAtlantic Center Sunrise, Fla.


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Hey look! It's Monday, and that means it's time for a new Memories of the Futurecast.
Memories of the Future, Volume One, covers the first 13 episodes of TNG, so each week, I'm choosing something from one episode, and performing an excerpt for you. It will mostly be from the synopses, which is where I think the real humor of the book lives, but from time to time, I may work in some things from the other parts.
Two important things:
- This does not mean the book comes out in 13 weeks. It comes out much sooner than that.
- These are not excerpted from an audiobook. These are recorded specifically for this podcast. I'm not sure if I'll do a full-length audiobook, yet, but I'm open to the idea.
Episode Notes:
- The Memories of the Futurecast works hard to earn its [EXPLICIT] tag. You have been warned.
- This week's episode is The Naked Now. I read some of the synopsis and all of The Bottom Line. I also found a memory (of the future) that I hadn't thought about in years, and decided to share it with the class.
- This week's theme music is Dropping Out of School by Brad Sucks, from his albumOut of It. I used it under Creative Commons from Magnatune dot Com. Yay!
- Garageband doesn't seem to be embedding artwork (designed by Will Hindmarch, who did the cover and interior design for the book) no matter what I do. I'm aware of the problem, but I don't know how to fix it.
- Memories of the Futurecast is AB negative.
- Memories of the Futurecast gives +3 to all Gnomes in the party.
- Memories of the Futurecast will take you out for a nice fish dinner, and never call you back.
- Memories of the Futurecast is about 21 minutes long this week.
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Organizing the Convention
This State Capitol, located on the site of the present capitol building, was completed in 1835. Delegates to the constitutional convention met in the Hall of the House of Representatives in this building from October 7 until December 25, 1850. The opening of the session of the General Assembly forced the convention to move to the Masonic Hall. (Report of Debates, 2:1226, 1311, 1312; Indiana's State House [Indianapolis, 2000], 6; Kettleborough, 1:lxxxix)
The Indiana Gazetteer (Indianapolis, 1850), opp. title page.
At 10:00 a.m., October 7, 1850, elected delegates of the constitutional convention met in the Hall of the House of Representatives in the State Capitol in Indianapolis. Charles H. Test, Indiana Secretary of State, called the convention to order.
After the delegates swore an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution and perform their duties to the best of their abilities, Secretary Test announced the convention ready to proceed to the business of organization.
George W. Carr, Lawrence County, was elected president, and William H. English, Scott County (not an elected delegate to the convention), was elected principal secretary of the convention. Three assistant secretaries were also elected by delegates; doorkeepers and sergeants-at-arms were appointed.
A committee was appointed to find larger, more convenient quarters for the convention.
Some discussion occurred concerning the employment of a stenographer to record the debates of the convention. Milton Gregg, Jefferson County, expressed his belief that the entire population of the state would agree with him that "the employment of a Stonographer [sic] here is as a useless expenditure of money and the publication of the debates of the Convention in an embodied form, as the consummation of human folly." Robert Dale Owen, Posey County, replied: "I know of no State in which a Convention has recently been held, which has not provided for the reporting of their debates; and I doubt very much whether any publication will be read with more interest by the people of the State than the reports of our debates. It cannot be denied that they will be eminently useful, as a commentary on the Constitution which we are about to form."
It was decided to record the debates. Later that same day, the convention directed the State Librarian to procure copies of the debates or journals of the constitutional conventions of New York, Kentucky, and Wisconsin.
By October 14, a plan had been adopted creating twenty-two standing committees to consider and draft sections of the new Constitution, and members had been assigned. Also on that day, rules of order for the government of the convention proceedings were approved.
The real business of the convention began in earnest.
Sources: Journal of Convention, 3-4, 21-25, 52-58; Report of Debates, 1:30, 31-32, 41, 59-62.


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Friday Happy Hour: The Scarlet Ibis Trini Rum by way of New York
I have a very odd milestone rapidly approaching. In 2011, if I still don't call the Caribbean my home-base, I will have lived away from the Caribbean longer than I've lived in the Caribbean.
As sad as that sounds, it hasn't been too bad since I've called New York City my home for the past 11 years. Here you can get anything, from any culture at almost any time of day. (In fact, one of my favorite Trini roti shops is here in Brooklyn, but I'll reveal that taste of the Caribbean another day.)
Today's case in point is Scarlet Ibis rum. The truly uncommon genesis for this light, copper colored high-proof rum is tied directly to the speak-easy boom in New York of the past 10 years.
The first one of these "secret" bars I remember frequenting was Milk and Honey about 10 years ago in the, at the time, no man's land of the Lower East Side. A beautiful little candlelit space with touches to remind patrons lucky enough to know of its existence of a time when a night on the town was a bit more civilized. Posted rules included not approaching women without being properly introduced and "no name-dropping." But the biggest draw was owner and mixologist Sasha's immaculately crafted drinks.
The tremendous success of this model lead to many more bars with unpublished addresses as well as a new appreciation by night owls for finer libations—like the ones our own resident mixologist Jesse usually shares with us on Fridays.
Anyway, fast-forward several years to 2007 for the highly anticipated opening of a new East Village spot in the classic style, but with a published address named Death & Co. On nights I used to swing by in '07, they were often just turning people away due to waits of an hour or more for a chance to sink into one of their suede banquets and sample some of their masterfully crafted cocktails.
The main draw for me: Scarlet Ibis Rum.
For a time, this one location was the only place in the world where you could actually drink Scarlet Ibis Rum as it was a bespoke creation specifically for Death & Co by a Trinidadian bulk rum production company called Caroni. And what an excellent drink this 98 proof rum makes!
Personally, I love to simply savor most premium rums without any mixing, but to get the full Death & Co experience in your own home lounge (even if you don't have suede banquets), check out some of the drink descriptions on their menu. The Drunken Dodo, is one of my favorites with Scarlet Ibis Rum being joined by Carpano Antica Vermouth, Allspice Dram, Angostura Bitters, and an Orange Twist.
Scarlet Ibis Rum is only bottled as the limited blend becomes available, so it may be hard to find, but if you ask nice I might bring you a bottle on my next visit.


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Goodbye March, Hello April
March is almost over (in less than six hours). Oh, how it roll by so fast. Everything happened in a blur. April is about to unravel more surprises and happenings but the thing I am most excited with will be the month of June. I am turning 28 this year (read: I am getting older). Overall, March has been very good to me and my family.
Oh and thank you for all the prayers and the thoughtfulness as my sister went through an operation (I was the one managing her Facebook and other online stuff while she was at the hospital). She is now safe and recuperating and all she asked me was to send her loaves of Gardenia bread because that was all she was craving for after the doctors removed her appendix and cleaned her other internal organs (TMI).
Anyway, I wrote this post too to share how lucky I have been this month. I joined quite a few contests/giveaways and I managed to win three. That ain't bad yeah? I won DJ Mo's (in partnership with Tradeport) daily trivia contest. I got the prize the day after I was informed that I won and guessed the correct number of ways on how you can pay Tradeport for your online purchase. If this is how fast shipping and delivery for orders really is from this e-mall then I guess they are bound to success and dominate the online shopping craze here in the Philippines. I got the package all wrapped up around 10 in the morning. I received a Philips Radio and an alarm clock with radio. :-)
Since I liked how fast the service has been, I can't help but rave about Tradeport and I have been eyeing items to order already (yay for customer service). I like that payment is not just limited to credit cards unlike most online stores. You can choose to pay for the item you like in seven, yes seven, different methods. You can either pay using your Visa or Mastercard (that can be swiped on delivery = A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!), Cash On Delivery, BPI Special Installment Plan, bank deposits and transfer, secured online payments through Paypal and Weepay and of course Smart Money and soon they will offer payment via GCash too for Globe subscribers. I love how varied the choices are. If you are from Metro Manila, you will not pay for shipping fee. Unfortunately Tradeport only caters to Philippine customers at this point. If you want to read more and browse through the extensive list of products available, please visit their website.
I also won in the blog birthday giveaway of Sophie at Beautynomics. I won a set of brushes. I have already sent her my mailing address and I am eagerly anticipating to receive 'em. It is just timely as I have recently ordered some brush guards from a fellow blogger. And just recently, I was informed that I won Annalyn's Hair Removal Story Giveaway sponsored by Veet. And here's what I shared:
"Have you ever tried hair removal for 3 hours? Oh yes, I have done it. I had full body waxing done last year. Not that I am super hairy but I was just too vain that I had to have them all removed (except my long locks and eyebrows and lashes of course). Before my week-long Dos Palmas trip, I decided to have it all removed so I'll be more confident to strut my stuff at the beach. What's horrifying about it? Well, after the waxing session, I felt so itchy all over and then when I looked at the mirror I had red bumps all over (little ones though). I didn't know what to do and I was too shy to go out to buy some meds. Good thing I was able to keep some anti-inflammatory gels in my medicine kit. Ahhhh, beauty indeed has a price. I slept it off after and when I woke, the red bumps all diappeared. Geez, and for a while I thought my summer has ended right before it started."
On the office front, it has been crazy with all the changes but I am just swimming with the flow and making sure my own group delivers. I know for the most part that I have been overstaffed but then again it is better since we are not missing any callback and we have been greatly improving the output of the team just not the output of each one because we had to share like less than a hundred callbacks for 14 outbound technicians. Everything will be moved to status quo by April so I am looking forward to getting close to 200 fresh cases again next month (I have braced myself and my team for another ride). Bring on the challenge.
This post is so random. Haha! I just had to share... Hope you had a good March and looking forward to April! Ciao bellas!


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I've been getting a lot of questions about DynamoDB, and these are my personal thoughts on the product, and how it fits into cloud architectures.
I'm excited to see the release of DynamoDB, it's a very impressive product with great performance characteristics. It should be the first option for startups and new cloud projects on AWS. I also think it marks the turning point on solid state disks, they will be the default for new database products and benchmarks going forward.
There are a few use cases where SimpleDB may still be useful, but DynamoDB replaces it in almost all cases. I've talked about the history of Netflix use of SimpleDB before, but it's relevant to the discussion on DynamoDB, so here goes.
When Netflix was looking at moving to cloud about three years ago we had an internal debate about how to handle storage on AWS. There were strong proponents for using MySQL, SimpleDB was fairly new, and other alternatives were nascent NoSQL projects or expensive enterprise software. We started some pathfinder projects to explore the two alternatives and decided to port an existing MySQL app to AWS, while building a replication pipeline that copied data out of our Oracle datacenter systems into SimpleDB to be consumed in the cloud. The MySQL experience showed that we would have trouble scaling, and SimpleDB seemed reliable, so we went ahead and kept building more data sources on SimpleDB, with large blobs of data on S3.
Along the way we put memcached in front of SimpleDB and S3 to improve read latency. The durability of SimpleDB is its strongest point, we have had Oracle and SAN data corruption bugs in the Datacenter over the last few years, but never lost or corrupted any SimpleDB data. The limitations of SimpleDB are its biggest problem. We worked around limits on table size, row and attribute size, and per-request overhead caused by http requests needing to be authenticated for every call.
So the lesson here is that for a first step into NoSQL, we went with a hosted solution so that we didn't have to build a team of experts to run it, and we didn't have to decide in advance how much scale we needed. Starting again from scratch today, I would probably go with DynamoDB. It's a low "friction" and developer friendly solution.
Late in 2010 we were planning the next step, turning off Oracle and making the cloud the master copy of the data. One big problem is that our backups and archives were based on Oracle, and there was no way to take a snapshot or incremental backup of SimpleDB. The only way to get data out in bulk is to run "SELECT * FROM table" over HTTP and page the requests. This adds load, takes too long, and costs a lot because SimpleDB charges for the time taken in SELECT calls.
We looked at about twenty NoSQL options during 2010, trying to understand what the differences were, and eventually settled on Cassandra as our candidate for prototyping. In a week or so, we had ported a major data source from SimpleDB to Cassandra and were getting used to the new architecture, running benchmarks etc. We evaluated some other options, but decided to take Cassandra to the next stage and develop a production data source using it.
The things we liked about Cassandra were that it is written in Java (we have a building full of Java engineers), it is packed full of state of the art distributed systems algorithms, we liked the code quality, we could get commercial support from Datastax, it is scalable and as an extra bonus it had multi-region support. What we didn't like so much was that we had to staff a team to own running Cassandra for us, but we retrained some DBAs and hired some good engineers including Vijay Parthasarathy, who had worked on the multi-region Cassandra development at Cisco Webex and who recently became a core committer on the Apache Cassandra project. We also struggled with the Hector client library, and have written our own (which we plan to release soon). The blessing and a curse of Cassandra is that it is an amazingly fast moving project. New versions come fast and furiously, which makes it hard to pick a version to stabilize on, however the changes we make turn up in the mainstream releases after a few weeks. Saying "Cassandra doesn't do X" is more of a challenge than a statement. If we need "X" we work with the rest of the Apache project to add it.
Throughout 2010 the product teams at Netflix gradually moved their backend data sources to Cassandra, we worked out the automation we needed to do easy self service deployments and ended up with a large number of clusters. In preparation for the UK launch we also made changes to Cassandra to better support multi-region deployment on EC2, and we are currently running several Cassandra clusters that span the US and European AWS regions.
Now that DynamoDB has been released, the obvious question is whether Netflix has any plans to use it. The short answer is no, because it's a subset of the Cassandra functionality that we depend on. However that doesn't detract from the major step forward from SimpleDB in performance, scalability and latency. For new customers, or people who have outgrown the scalability of MySQL or MongoDB, DynamoDB is an excellent starting point for data sources on AWS. The advantages of zero administration combined with the performance and scalability of a solid state disk backend are compelling.
Personally my main disappointment with DynamoDB is that it doesn't have any snapshot or incremental backup capability. The AWS answer is that you can extract data into EMR then store it in S3. This is basically the same answer as SimpleDB, it's a full table scan data extraction (which takes too long and costs too much and isn't incremental). The mechanism we built for Cassandra leverages the way that Cassandra writes immutable files to get a callback and compress/copy them to S3 as they are written, it's extremely low overhead. If we corrupt our data with a code bug and need to roll back, or take a backup in production and restore in test, we have all the files archived in S3.
One argument against DynamoDB is that DynamoDB is on AWS only, so customers could get locked in, however it's easy to upgrade applications from SimpleDB, to DynamoDB and to Cassandra. They have similar schema models, consistency options and availability models. It's harder to go backwards, because Cassandra has more features and fewer restrictions. Porting between NoSQL data stores is trivial compared to porting between relational databases, due to the complexity of the SQL language dialects and features and the simplicity of the NoSQL offerings. Starting out on DynamoDB then switching to Cassandra when you need more direct control over the installation or Cassandra specific features like multi-region support is a very viable strategy.
As early adopters we have had to do a lot more pioneering engineering work than more recent cloud converts. Along the way we have leveraged AWS heavily to accelerate our own development, and built a lot of automation around Cassandra. While SimpleDB has been a minor player in the NoSQL world DynamoDB is going to have a much bigger impact. Cassandra has matured and got easier to use and deploy over the last year but it doesn't scale down as far. By that I mean a single developer in a startup can start coding against DynamoDB without needing any support and with low and incremental costs. The smallest Cassandra cluster we run is six m1.xlarge instances spread over three zones with triple replication.
I've been saying for a while that 2012 is the year that NoSQL goes mainstream, DynamoDB is another major step in validating that move. The canonical CEO to CIO conversation is moving from 2010: "what's our cloud strategy?", 2011: "what's our big data strategy?" to 2012: "what's our NoSQL strategy?".
Thursday, January 19, 2012
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As old as the hills
What's the meaning of the phrase 'As old as the hills'?
Exceedingly old.
What's the origin of the phrase 'As old as the hills'?
The phrase derives from the Bible, Job 15:7. It was alluded to in Miles Coverdale's Bible, 1535:
Art thou the first man, that euer was borne? Or, wast thou made before the hylles?
The phrase in its current form didn't gain use until the 18th century. The first example I can find of that form of words is in Francis Hutchinson's A defence of the antient historians, 1734:
As vales are as old as the hills, so loughs and rivers must be as old as they.
It is quite possible that Hutchinson was making a literal reference to hills and not using the expression in its figurative form. A figurative usage does come not long after however, in The Edinburgh Magazine, 1787:
If an unlucky gamester brought on his papyrus a combination of letters already known, every body abused him saying "That has been already said" - "That is as old as the hills" - "all the world knows that".
See also 'As old as Methuselah'.
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The iPad may have launched in 2010, but 2011 was a big year for tablets. Almost every major smartphone and PC manufacturer has joined the tablet party Apple started, beginning with the Motorola Xoom way back in February. To combat Apple on new territory, most companies turned to Google and its fledgling tablet OS, Android 3.0 (Honeycomb). Results were mixed, with some great and innovative devices coming out, padded by more iPad clones than you can shake a stick at. Until late 2011, no manufacturer seemed to be capable of beating Apple's $500 price by a significant enough margin to make much headway. If you're going to choose an iPad knockoff, it better be a lot cheaper. That's where Amazon came in. Despite most people suspecting the death of the e-reader in the face of the iPad, Kindle sales continued to surge, prompting Amazon to launch its own tablet, the Kindle Fire for a new low price of $200.
Some of this year's biggest losers were tablets as well. RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and HP's TouchPad tablet both attempted to enter the market but were greeted with little interest from buyers. HP didn't take the rejection well, momentarily announcing a complete shut down of WebOS and a potential sell-off of its entire PC division (its CEO was fired and this decision was reversed). Both companies didn't see any traction with their tablets until they were discounted to rock-bottom prices of $100-$200. But that's enough about them. Let's get on to this year's big winners.
Make sure to check the rest of our Best of 2011 Awards to see all of this year's winners.
Apple iPad 2, $500 and upThe iPad 2 is the standard for all things tablet. Microsoft may have invented the tablet PC years ago, but Apple reinvented it as a relevant compliment to a PC and smartphone. The iPad 2 is still arguably the best tablet on the market, with a superthin aluminum frame, 9.7-inch screen with a paper-like aspect ratio of 4:3. And because Apple required all developers to make custom apps for the iPad, the market is full of apps that are custom built for Apple's tablet. Android users currently aren't so lucky. The iPad also still has that responsiveness and ease of use that Android Honeycomb doesn't quite have. We've seen and heard about many older Americans who generally avoid PCs being delighted with the iPad and using it for all sorts of things. If you want a solid buy that you know you'll enjoy, the iPad 2 is the best bet. Read our full Apple iPad 2 Review. |
Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9, $450 and upSamsung has made a good living by mimicking Apple (proof), and its Galaxy Tab series tries its best to be every bit as good as the iPad is. Out of the three Galaxy Tab sizes, we like the 8.9-inch screen the best. While most Android tablets sport small 7-inch screens or large 10.1-inch screens, the 8.9-inch size is a great middle ground. We found that the Galaxy Tab 8.9 was small enough (and thin enough) for easy thumb typing but large enough to use full-screen applications and do full web browsing. While we don't always love how manufacturers customize Android, Samsung's TouchWiz interface is a nice improvement over the stock Android Honeycomb tablet experience. If you have the money and don't want an iPad, the Tab 8.9 is a great option. Read our full Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 Review. |
Amazon Kindle Fire, $200Amazon dropped a bomb when it announced the Kindle Fire. The hardware isn't impressive, lacking cameras, hosting minimal RAM, and sporting a rather dull design borrowed from the BlackBerry PlayBook, but the price tag makes up for it. At a scant $200, the Kindle Fire is the first tablet that almost anyone can justify buying. More impressive is Amazon's interface, which takes Android and completely reworks it into a unique Amazon experience. Unlike other tablets, Amazon's interface is simple and explains exactly what the Kindle Fire is good for: news, books, music, video, docs, apps, and web browsing. If you're an Android enthusiast, the Kindle Fire may not be for you, as it only connects up to Amazon's own app and content stores, but we happen to like a lot of what Amazon offers. It's a bit clunky and not the best tablet you'll ever own, but the Kindle Fire is a solid choice for those on a budget. Read our full Amazon Kindle Fire review. |
Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime (with Keyboard dock), $650Almost every tablet manufacturer this year opted to mimic the iPad. Asus was different. With its Eee Pad tablets, the PC manufacturer tried something new. The Eee Pad Transformer is a thin, capable Android tablet that docks into a keyboard, turning the Android tablet into an effective netbook. Better, the dock has a battery in it too, boosting battery life to an astounding 18+ hours. The Transformer Prime, just launched in December, is an upgraded version of this tablet, with a thinner profile, more RAM, and a quad-core processor, meaning it really can act as a netbook. Other tablets by Asus, like the Eee Pad Slider and another tablet that you can dock a phone into, are innovative and interesting. The market has responded too. While other tablet manufacturers saw consumer interest fade over the course of the year, the Transformer continued to sell out, exceeding demand. +1 for a good idea, Asus. We look forward to seeing what the company has in store for 2012. |
Amazon Kindle Touch, $100The Kindle is the most popular E-reader on the market and for good reason: it's arguably the best. Amazon's e-book store is substantial and the new $100 price and addition of touch makes this e-reader affordable for almost anyone. Like the Nook Simple Touch (see below), the Kindle Touch uses an infra-red sensor net to detect touch while retaining the incredible battery life afforded by the e-ink screen. Two-month battery life ain't bad. The new Kindle Touch can also hold about 3,000 books and has a new "X-Ray" feature that lets you look up things on Wikipedia or search through the book. |
Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch, $100While people like to credit Amazon a lot, Barnes & Noble has been leading the e-book field for some time. The Nook Color was basically an early Kindle Fire and the Nook Simple Touch came out months before Amazon's touch-based Kindle. There isn't a huge difference between the Nook Touch and Kindle Touch. They're both solid e-readers and their book libraries are both fairly vast. The difference is that if you live by a B&N store, you can read books inside the store and get free technical support anytime you wish, a luxury Amazon fans do not have. We haven't done a side-by-side comparison, but the Nook Simple Touch screen seems a bit more responsive than the Kindle Touch. The price is the same as Amazon's tablet, there are no ads on the Nook (there are on Kindles), and the battery life is equally, if not more awesome than the Kindle. Do not feel ashamed picking a Nook. |
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text: Each year, Whisky Advocate Buying Guide reviewers collectively sample hundreds of whiskies. These include rare and extremely limited releases, as well as new and emerging labels that will find their way to shelves across the nation. To determine our Top 20, we begin by looking only at whiskies that rated "outstanding" (90 points or higher on Whisky Advocate's 100-point scale). However, the Top 20 is not simply a collection of our highest-rated whiskies, because many of those are so limited they would be impossible for most readers to locate or purchase. Therefore, in addition to quality (based on score), our selection also prioritizes value (based on price) and availability. An important step in gauging the true merit of these whiskies is blind tasting review by a panel of international reviewers. The review panel tasted the eligible whiskies in a series of blind tasting flights to arrive at the final list. The panel did not know the identity of the whiskies being tasted—not their producer, country of origin, age, nor price. The average rating from the blind tasting panel supersedes the original Buying Guide rating. The individual reviewer rating will remain noted in the Buying Guide for the record. The final decision for placement considers average score, price, and availability. Our Top 20 is a selection of whiskies worthy of your attention. The list includes great values that might otherwise be overlooked, whiskies that are best in class for their style, and highly accomplished bottles you should be looking for. Most importantly, each of these whiskies generates excitement and marks a highlight across a year of tasting.


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Yubi Leverages Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Drive Growth and Profitability
Bravado, The Epitome Of Men's Grooming Innovation, Launched In India
Medicover Hospitals, Navi Mumbai Conducts Fun-Filled Activities To Mark National Organ Donation Day
World's 2nd largest Gem & Jewellery trade show IIJS Premiere 2023 organised by GJEPC estimates business of over Rs. 60,000 crore
Suniel Shetty & Veda's Manun Thakur launch the World's First Mental Health App With 24×7 Access to Real Time Therapy while being Affordable and Private
Centre for Knowledge Sovereignty (CKS) and Esri India Enter the Pilot Phase of the MMGEIS Program
LIC of India introduced new plan "LIC's Amritbaal (Plan 874 )
St. Jude India ChildCare Centres unveils Happy Healthy Meals – a recipe book, fostering culinary creativity and nourishing hope for childhood cancer patients
Himalaya Wellness Company launches the 2024 Edition of their Flagship initiative – 'Ek Nayi Muskaan' with Indian Cricket Legend Yuvraj Singh supporting the cause
International Water Conclave 2024: Hon'ble Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma emphasizes on the Importance of Technology in Water Management
Doctor 365 Bollywood Maha Arogya Shivir Witnesses Presence of Renowned Personalities"
Whole Jain community joining celebration of Shri Ram Pran Prathishta Mahotsav
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Full list of all 60 Tom Clancy's EndWar achievements worth 1,220 gamerscore.
The base game contains 50 achievements worth 1,000 Gamerscore, and there is 1 DLC pack containing 10 achievements worth 220 Gamerscore.
Complete the Voice Command Trainer.
Win the Warning Signs mission.
Defeat Tanks with Gunships, Gunships with Transports and Transports with Tanks.
Won Finishing Move without any units being defeated.
Win one match in each mode (Conquest, Assault, Siege, Raid).
Complete "Prelude to War" on any difficulty.
Complete "Prelude to War" on Hardcore.
Use Secondary Attack for the first time.
Win 15 missions in the Solo Campaign.
Win 5 missions without using Mission Support in "World War III".
Win a mission by deploying infantry units only.
Finish "World War III" in less than 15 turns.
Capture an enemy Capital in only 3 turns in "World War III".
Finish "World War III" on Normal.
Finish "World War III" on Expert.
Finish "World War III" on Hardcore.
Finish "World War III" with all 3 Factions on Hardcore.
Play 20 Single Player Skirmish matches.
Win 10 2 vs. 2 multiplayer Skirmish matches.
Win 3 missions in a row in Theater of War.
Win 30 missions without killing a unit in Theater of War.
Play 30 missions in Theater of War city maps.
Disarm 10 minefields in Theater of War.
Have one unit fight and survive for 10 missions in Theater of War.
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20 Years Later, Seattle Music Scene Still Channels Spirit Of Nirvana
Twenty-five years ago, if you thought about Seattle at all, you might have known it as the home of Boeing airplanes. Then along came a band that shook up the world's ideas about rock music. In September 1991, Nirvana released its major-label debut, Nevermind.
Nirvana's success helped transform Seattle from an isolated working-class city to an international hub of art, technology and cafe society. On Saturday, Seattle's Experience Music Project opens the first major exhibition ever devoted to Nirvana and the music scene that spawned the band.
When Alice Wheeler came to Seattle 30 years ago, she was a teenager who loved punk rock.
"This was a great neighborhood when I first moved here in the early '80s," Wheeler says. "There were three punk-rock clubs on this block." She says her favorite was one called The Grey Door. Today, it's a coffeehouse.
Wheeler has spent the past three decades photographing Seattle's fringe scene: her fellow punks, musicians and disaffected kids. She also shot the grunge scene.
In the late '80s, that word — grunge — was shorthand for rock bands with a heavy, distorted guitar sound and for flannel shirts and long johns under cutoff jeans. Grunge was synonymous with Seattle. Grunge was a gritty sound that developed in a gritty port city.
"Before the Internet, you had Boeing and the naval shipyards. I ended up working at the naval shipyard for a few years," musician and producer Jack Endino says. Endino left the shipyards to join a band called Skinyard. To support his music, he got a day job at a recording studio. That's where he got a call from a kid living in Aberdeen, a logging town southwest of Seattle.
"January of '88," Endino says. "Here comes this band with no name. Kurt Cobain and his friends. They could only afford one reel of tape, and they filled the tape up. It ran out in the middle of the 10th song. They said, 'That's OK, put a fade ending on that song. We're done. We don't have any more money.'
"Then," Endino says, "I played it for Jon Poneman." In 1987, Poneman and his partner Bruce Pavitt started a company called Sub Pop Records to put out singles by local bands.
"I was halfway through the first song," Poneman says, "and Kurt launches into a roar, and I was just, 'Oh my god.' "
At the time, Seattle's music scene was tiny. A couple hundred people traipsed around from one impromptu club to the next. Back then, Charles Cross edited a weekly newspaper about Seattle's music scene. He went on to write the Kurt Cobain biography Heavier Than Heaven.
Standing in front of the white sheet-rock walls of an Urban Outfitters stockroom, it's hard to imagine that the room was once a club. Cross says the club "had a smell, a basement smell. Everything about Nirvana smelled like basements: the recording studios, where they lived — there's a mustiness."
By 1989, Nirvana was on its way out of the basement. Sub Pop had just released the band's first album, Bleach. In a stroke of marketing genius, the label flew over a British music writer to check out the Seattle scene. His article opened the floodgates.
In a short period of time, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains and Mudhoney all signed contracts with major labels. Their records sold well, but nobody was ready for 1991, when MTV picked up Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" video from Nevermind.
"It was everywhere," Endino says. "I remember one of the major-label people being quoted. Somebody said, 'You did a good job of promoting that record.' And he said, 'We didn't promote it — you had to get out of the way and duck.'"
Nevermind sold a million copies within the first six months of its release, and Nirvana went from a trio with no name to No. 1 on the Billboard charts.
By 1991, Seattle had already started to change. Five years earlier, Microsoft moved to a suburb and made its initial public stock offering. That same year, 1986, Howard Schultz bought his first coffeehouse. A year later, Schultz acquired a company called Starbucks. Cross says it all made for a perfect storm.
"The combination of there being software jobs, the combination of things like Starbucks getting national attention, then the music scene, made anyone who was 22 years old, who had just left college and was hip, move to Seattle," he says. The city's days as a blue-collar outpost were over.
Dow Constantine runs the county that includes Seattle and its suburbs; the 13-story, environmentally certified office building where he works is a vivid example of how things in Seattle have changed. Twenty-five years ago, Constantine was behind a microphone at the local alternative-music radio station. Both the man and the city have shed their scruffy images since then.
"I don't think you can say it was a bad thing we became well-off," Constantine says. "But it does do things like increase real-estate values, makes it hard to do things like run a seedy club where bands can come play for five bucks. You gotta be able to make money to pay the rent."
Some bands, and some hipsters, fled south to Portland, Ore. Seattle's music scene is thriving; it's the sound that's changed.
"You'll probably see a lot of people wearing flannel right now, because that seems to be back in: flannel, beards and folk," says Jacob McMurray, senior curator of Seattle's Experience Music Project.
McMurray says grunge may be a 20-year-old memory, but it's part of the continuum of Seattle pop music, from Jimi Hendrix to the Sonics to the next unnamed trio.
"What happened in Seattle and the Northwest couldn't have happened in L.A. or New York," McMurray says. "That's because to most of the people in the universe, it's this unknown, mythical place. It didn't bring up any preconceptions."
Seattle was a frontier town that attracted people who wanted to invent new things and to reinvent themselves: Bill Boeing, Bill Gates, Kurt Cobain. Two decades after Nirvana hit it big with Nevermind, Seattle is slicker and richer. But photographer Wheeler says the city still beckons.
"I still meet kids all the time that still have that punk-grunge spirit," Wheeler says. "It's just as cool as it ever was." Maybe just not as loud.


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Either you get with the code or get left out in the cold.
As technology becomes more and more ingrained in our everyday lives, you have to make a choice: Are you a consumer of tech, or are you someone who understands it?
Buying the latest iPhone and keeping up with the who-works-where, who's-launching-what tech gossip is all good and fine, but if you can't code, you ain't no kind of techie.
Startups like Codecademy are making it easy to learn coding online — easy enough for school children, in fact. More intense programs like DaVinci Coders take learners from total noob to novice programmer in an 11 week bootcamp. And one game, Coderacer, will have you on the ground and coding in just five minutes…
All this supply exists on the market because there's a huge demand for coding education. One startup we recently heard from decided that in 2012, all its employees would learn how to code. And in Estonia, every single kid in public school will be learning computer programming.
"While the entrepreneurial community has exploded within the past year or two, there's a constant shortage of developers and a tremendous number of businesspeople trying to learn to code," said Codecademy founder Zach Sims to VentureBeat in a recent chat.
"Programming literacy is going to be an incredibly important skill in the next few years, and we hope we can bring that to new groups of people."
Still, not everyone buys into the "everyone must code" mentality. In a recent chat with Internet co-inventor Vint Cerf (he was one of the two creators of TCP/IP), the venerable innovator said that while he likes Codecademy's aims, he's not sure that coding is the right pursuit for all humankind.
"I hope it won't be necessary for [all] people to be programmers," he said, "but it is necessary for people to have an appreciation for what is possible because of science and technology… an abstract understanding of how things work."
"A lot of people who use spreadsheets on a daily basis don't think about it as coding, but it is. It's just simpler than if you were writing an operating system," Cerf concluded.


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Faramir wrote:Thank you! Switching to an alternative port resolve the issue. I start the installation of the game.
We have in the organization installed Kaspersky endpoint security 10 for Windows - possible cause and there, but the unloading of its anti-virus did not help solve the problem.
It might not actually be the anti-virus per-say that caused the issue. As I recall, Kaspersky has a bunch of different program monitoring features, and if the error only occurred on port 80, it might be some kind of web-security feature (such a feature could be mistaking the TLS data stream for HTTPS).
In any case, glad you got it working! I should probably update the installer to default to the "alt port" setting, as a number of different testers have all had issues on port 80, but I've yet to get any reports of problems running on the alt-port.


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Day Two in Room Four
What I most value about the IGF is that thanks to its multi-stakeholder principle, it widens my perspective on pressing internet governance issues. However, all three sessions I attended on day two in room number four, while talking about human rights, failed to include women's rights perspective. Women internet users are important stakeholder and it is evident that even after six years of existence IGF still fails to engage them in equal footing with other stakeholders.
Each workshop dealt with the issues of freedom of expression, privacy and security, but each of them in a very different manner.
Balancing freedom or expression with privacy and safety
The two morning workshops looked at how to balance freedom or expression with privacy and safety. The first was framed around a new UNESCO publication that maps current regulations of internet privacy from the viewpoint of freedom of expression, including legal remedies and self-regulatory guidelines.
The session started by looking into the history of privacy protection which emerged with the start of photography. So, privacy protection was always technology related, and the history shows that new technology will always bring new challenges. Current technology such as clouds, mics built into machines we always carry with us, search engines and social networking, all these generate an enormous amount of personal data and extend the reach of the information that corporations, governments and other users can find, information about our relationships, habits, behaviour or bodies. This 'oil of the 21st century' is mined and controlled by a handful of powerful private sector actors.
It was shame that the peer to peer privacy threats generated by this amount of personal data was only mentioned by a Google representative. The lack of gender perspective was even more striking in relation to the recommendations presented on how to balance freedom of expression and privacy online among which was listed that one should chose the right which best embodied the public interest. This makes it seem like there is a unified public interest – to whose or which public interest are they refering? Would women or sexual minority groups' interest ever be prioritized?
(see whole workshop transcript here)
The second session built on the first workshop with a focus on safety of online media actors. One of the panelists highlighted that the impunity of threats to journalists is one of the worst forms of censorship. More than 50 journalists have been killed this year (by the end of November). Of those journalists killed 39 were online writers and bloggers. Non-state actors especially organized groups are behind a number of these killings. UNESCO is thereby calling on states to also actively defend online freedoms, which includes ensuring the safety of journalists.
However, the gender component was again missing. No person raised the issue of women online writers being frequently harassed online on the basis of their sex or sexuality. Although the joint declaration on crimes against freedom of expression released early this year by OSCE, UNHCR, OAS, and ACHPR (that urges governments to recognize the seriousness of crimes against journalists and others who seek to share information; to fulfil obligations to prevent and prohibit such crimes, and to protect journalists as well as their families; to conduct independent, speedy and effective investigations into such crimes; and to provide redress for victims) states that there is a "particular challenges and danger faced by women exercising their right to freedom of expression, and denouncing gender specific crimes of intimidation including sexual assaults, aggression and threats" and calls for the specialised programmes that "should include a range of protection measures, which should be tailored to the individual circumstances of the person at risk, including his or her gender, need" and "appropriate training on crimes against freedom of
expression, including gender specific crimes" for relevant law enforcement officials.
It was highlighted by one of the participants that it is important not to get hooked up by the question of who is a journalist and who is not. Could this be translated as meaning that everyone expressing their views online can fall within this net of protection?
(see whole workshop transcript here)
Aspects of identity
The last session was supposed to be on aspects of identity. It was a completely imbalanced session not only in terms of gender, but also from a regional or a civil society perspective. The organizers of this workshop clearly fail to uphold the multistakeholder principle which lies at the heart of the IGF.
Some of the statements made here included that:
? anonymity and privacy is not a same thing.
While many participants were nodding, I am not sure I agree. I find it hard to distinguish or imagine one without the other. Even according to wikipedia.org: anonymity "refers to the state of an individual's personal identity, or personally identifiable information, being publicly unknown". Privacy is "the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively".
Moreover why do we need to distinguish between them, and more importantly what consequences does it have to make this distinguished. This was reinforced by the next question/statement raised by one of the session participants and affirmed by the panellists:
? who needs to retain anonymity in a democratic country?
Hey, I do!
when I go to vote
when I do search on some personal health issues of myself or my family members
when I wander through streets
But most important, anonymity is critical for many people living in 'democratic' countries because of threats and violations they may face because of their sexual, gender, racial identity or because of the views they express.
? we should not worry much about surveillance cameras and monitoring of our online activities… they are only used to track ' bad guys'?
Yet another statement which I had problems with, mentioned in response to a privacy issue raised by one session participant who was concerned about her id card being required when she wants to use an internet cafe in India.
Almost on a monthly basis we read about cases where someone's private data has been leaked or misused. In one of the earlier sessions, there was, for example, mention of a case from South Korea where personal information of at least 85% of internet users in Korea had been stolen several years ago, and by then there was real name legislation forced by government. Having your real identity attached to these data make them particularly valuable and attractive. Or how the cases I have heard of cellphone sellers providing/selling young women's phone numbers to male clients? How can we trust that data collected about us, our movements and communication will not be abused by government or other parties, regardless of how 'good' we are?
(see whole workshop transcript here)
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